generic), and display driver (this one is for std.
The three DRV files are system-interface, mouse-driver (this one is for MS serial mouse, i.e.
PCADDRV.SYS is a text file giving pcad the location and choice of drivers to use. In any case, PCAD acts exactly the same with or without it in the \pcad\exe directory fyi. It could be just a DOS utility of some sort but I didn't want to run it on this machine and end up trashing the HD by accident. I don't know that LOCATE.COM is needed, or even part of the PCAD pkg. I don't believe this is significant, but thought I'd mention it. Note: in the other module (not included here) for editing PCB instead of schematic, the error msg is slightly different.
? Reply 27 of 45, by DominusĪttached is a RAR file of the minimum needed to get PCAD to the stage where it enters the graphics editor and puts the message at the bottom of "security device port failure". I wonder if it's involved with the write of SIBMPC.DRV back to disk, that.I think it was HAL.mentioned. I -could- get off on a tangent about the intensely frustrating habit of programmers not to tell us WHAT filename was involved with the error.but I won't.grin.Īny ideas what's causing this 'error 5', or whether it's significant or not? set of files needed and noticed an error message (from dosbox or a dosbox op I assume).ĬONFIG:Loading settings from config file E:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\n I've had the win2k console window minimized throughout this adventure.but happened to look at it while trying to figure out the min. I think that a lot more people know what a "beta" is than what a "CVS" is. Just saying "try one of the beta versions on the CVS page" would carry the right meaning to a lot more people. The use of "in crowd" language when normal terms would do fine. I think you've hit on a part of the problem. I didn't get a chance to bundle those files for Alkerion yet, but I hope to get to that tonight. It has to be something very small and trivial. That'll help.Įven if I can get it working that way though, I'm still very curious to hear what's not working in the normal DosBox environment. WD: thanks for the link to the DOS-install page. Very simple to find, download, install, and go. The DosBox page is one of the better ones.as is the product itself. There are a number of projects there which are done very well indeed. I think that some of the programmers DO want people to be able to USE their tool.
Seriously though, every day that that attitude continues is another day that open-source remains only 1% of the software world, and M$ et al remain on top with 99%. Then the thousands of programmers/authors might want to stop referring the millions of users there, hmmm ? ?
If you go there and don't understand anything, you can be sure there is nothing you miss - it's simply nothing that you need to know, since it is only useful to programmers. What you describe is exactly what it wants to be. Reply 21 of 45, by wdĭead right: SourceForge is a collaboration tool for programmers. Interesting that it can overlay -another- dos within/ontop of itself. the assumption was that dosbox WAS dos, providing dos. When I first downloaded and installed DOS box, it never even entered my head that I'd want/need to load DOS "again".i.e. And I will study the dosbox docs again.Īll I saw before was the 'mount' command for drives.missed the IMGMOUNT thing. Yup, I have an old Winimage on disk here. TeaRex, thanks for the brief on booting dos within dosbox. I will first find out what files pcad screams for so that I'm uploading only the minimum necessary to get it to the point where it switches to graphics-mode and looks for the dongle. ORCAD, Quartus-II FPGA design, Pro-E, etc.can you tell I'm a hardware guy? grin)Īlkarion, thanks much. I've already got 10 complex skills and software packages to be up-to-speed on.i.e. (and no, I'm not going to get a C-compiler and devote my life to becoming a C-programmer. Call it or, and it's still the same.īut never mind my frustration with that sad situation.I'm just a computer in. So it really isn't germane what the domain-name is. TeaRex, that's easy to say ("it's SOURCE forge), but the fact is that on 99% of the open-source projects, one is -directed- to the sourceforge page as THE place to get a program, and find out about it.